Celebrate with finalists and winners and hear from Keynote Speaker Beatriz Williams at the 2017 Connecticut Book Awards at the Mark Twain House and Museum on October 22nd from 2 - 4pm.

Connecticut Center for the Book is very pleased to pay tribute to Connecticut's literary community with the 2017 Connecticut Book Awards. The awards recognize and honor books with specific ties to our state: the author or illustrator must be native-born or have been a legal resident of Connecticut for at least three years, or the book must have a Connecticut setting to be considered.

Danielle Pieratti's poetry volume Fugitives navigates the complex, expansive space between the writer and the world and explores the mundane moments and materials that make up ordinary days and finds there the ambiguities of mystery, shadow, and song. (Poetry)